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Partner doesn’t shower enough

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anonymous73181921 · 27/01/2026 16:20

my partner doesn’t shower often enough, I mean he can go days without showering and putting clean boxers on,
I’ve mention it so many times but his excuse is he doesn’t have time as he has the gym then work but there is time and I just lost it today and told him he’s being lazy and it’s off putting cos he smells.
he thinks I shouldn’t have called him lazy cos he really doesn’t have time but he does have plenty time.

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MarkSkiddie · 27/01/2026 19:43

this is why gyms stink of arse, balls and armpits.

SunnySideDeepDown · 27/01/2026 19:46

MissRaspberry · 27/01/2026 18:49

Urgh I was married to a guy like this it really isn't nice at all. He went months without bathing or showering. Granted he didn't go to the gym but he works in retail and I think at one point his manager pointed out customers complained about his personal hygiene. Honestly I stuck to the no sex without him having had a wash. He then went looking elsewhere and cheated going on dating sites and telling women hes married but his wife doesn't give him sexy time. Like honestly if he'd washed he would've actually got some action. Safe to say that man is now my ex husband. OP your partner has no excuse he goes to a gym where there are showers available to use. Takes 10 minutes to have a wash it's not going to take up much of his chill time before or after work. I'd be surprised if his boss or supervisor at work hasn't had words with him about his personal hygiene

Why didn’t you leave? Months of no washing and you stuck around until he cheated?! Who the hell would cheat with him anyway?

Dillydollydingdong · 27/01/2026 19:48

He doesn't put on clean pants every day? Yuck!

MarkSkiddie · 27/01/2026 19:48

OP he’s likely to give you a nasty infection.

Fodencat · 27/01/2026 19:53

Bed sheets smelling of arses

outerspacepotato · 27/01/2026 19:57

You know his smell transfers. You might smell like him if he's hugged you or you've sat close to him or where he's sat or laid in the same bed. Your house smells like him. People won't want to be around him and they won't want you around either if you bring him.

theres not a thing he wouldn’t do for me

Well, that's false. You live with someone too lazy to wash his body for you. He's got old urine and feces bits on him and staph and God knows what's growing in his mouth. He smells bad because he's a filthy slob and that bad bacteria is multiplying. Yes, he's very likely to give you UTIs and skin infections.

BeeHive909 · 27/01/2026 19:58

Wait what am I reading. He doesn’t shower, doesn’t wear clean boxers and doesn’t clean his teeth? He’s an absolute dirty rat. That makes me feel sick. 🤢. He wouldn’t be entering my house like that.

CoffeeCakeAndALattePlease · 27/01/2026 20:07

Yeah I genuinely don’t think I could live with that, it’s grim.

I’m not of the mindset that people must shower twice daily, but definitely needs to happen regularly and especially after the gym. No excuse for not changing boxers or brushing teeth.

Id just be so turned off by this.

Cat1202 · 27/01/2026 20:08

Please say you don’t get in the same bed as him and have sex? Absolutely revolting,
🤢

Soashamed60 · 27/01/2026 20:10

Jesus Christ, how have you managed to put up with this? Has he been wanting to kiss you & have sex?
What must his work place think of him too 🤮

Don17 · 27/01/2026 20:16

Please move out. He’s disgusting 🤮

MissRaspberry · 27/01/2026 20:20

SunnySideDeepDown · 27/01/2026 19:46

Why didn’t you leave? Months of no washing and you stuck around until he cheated?! Who the hell would cheat with him anyway?

He was emotionally abusive and manipulative it wasn't easy to leave. I'm surprised anyone else wanted the scruffy git to be honest

Soontobesingles · 27/01/2026 20:53

This is absolutely minging. I don’t think I could live this way. It’s really unhygienic and disrespectful. And not cleaning his teeth is also revolting. I get people have different standards but if it were me I’d be clear that he needs to shower at the gym after he has worked out, and daily otherwise, and make that a hard boundary for the relationship continuing.

KarenW · 27/01/2026 23:11

This has got to be made up. Geez, no self respecting human could live with this stinking disrespectable bacterially ridden vermin.

Flowers999 · 27/01/2026 23:14

Actually rank my soon to be husband showers twice a day sometimes!

BeenThereBackThen · 27/01/2026 23:40

There is no fucking hope here.

You are living with a smelly overgrown teen. That is gross.

You end up monitoring and reminding this overgrown smelly teen that he stinks and needs to wash/brush his teeth. Like his mummy.

Send him back to his parents house for retraining. Seriously.

Bones101 · 28/01/2026 00:42

You need to shower daily. Only excuse is if hungover haha

Blondeshavemorefun · 28/01/2026 00:43

Totally skanky

This would be a deal breaker for me tbh

emilysquest · 28/01/2026 00:53

No time to shower? Is he a junior doctor from the 1990s working 100 hour+ weeks? I was, and I would have died rather than not shower once a day...bullshit that he doesn't have time.

Monty27 · 28/01/2026 00:59

How long ago did he move in, 4 days would be long enough for most people to tolerate that? Oh yuck @anonymous73181921 set your standards higher please.

shhblackbag · 28/01/2026 04:40

anonymous73181921 · 27/01/2026 16:42

definitely if you don’t laugh kind of laugh and we do but I didn’t know the extent of the no showering brushing teeth

You should set your bar higher than a man who doesn't change his underwear, doesn't brush his teeth, and doesn't shower.

It's basic adulting. And he's failing.

Zanatdy · 28/01/2026 04:52

That’s disgusting he doesn’t shower after the gym. Would take 5 mins. He must stink.

ClairDeLaLune · 28/01/2026 05:24

anonymous73181921 · 27/01/2026 16:33

Definitely no sex unless he’s showered he knows that so doesn’t happen that often lol but moans he doesn’t get it enough

Well there’s a simple solution then if he wants more sex….

beAsensible1 · 28/01/2026 10:41

He doesn't respect you enough to wash and brush his teeth daily. he isn't a good man, he is disrespectful.

sharing a bed with you stinking, leaving the house stinking, sitting on the sofa STINKING. Kissing you with teeth he hasn't cleaned in multiple days, he might hate you.

The only person who I can fathom acting like toward me, is an enemy.

Trishyb10 · 28/01/2026 23:07

God, you,d think the guy had murdered someone……

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